Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 20, 1934

The Affairs of Cellini (Twentieth Century). In The Girl from Missouri
(TIME, Aug. 13), Lionel Barrymore admires a metal something with
sails on a friend's desk. "That's a Cellini," says the friend. Says
Barrymore: "I thought it was a boat."

Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be
historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the
greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once
in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a
portrait of him...